Letter urges feds to act on horrible year for La. environment
The best thing you can say about the state of environmental affairs in Louisiana in 2012 is that there's been nothing of the horribly catastrophic nature of the Deepwater Horizon fiasco two years ago,...
View ArticleFears of methane explosion rise in sinkhole-ravaged La. town
The people of Bayou Corne have been through a lot. It started this summer when residents of the small bayou community about 70 miles west of New Orleans began feeling tremors and reporting foul odors....
View ArticleWhat a gas! Flaming faucets as La. sinkhole expands, costs soar
If you care about the environment, there's a good chance you've seen the award-winning anti-fracking documentary, Gasland. And if you did, you surely remember the alarming result of natural gas...
View ArticleLa. needs to get to bottom of the sinkhole and radiation
It was just yesterday that I was sharing with you the new scientific data that even exposure to what has been considered low doses of radiation can be harmful. In particular, I mentioned the...
View ArticleWhy is Gov. Jindal afraid of visiting the sinkhole?
The sinkhole in Bayou Corne -- the one that I've been writing about here since last summer -- is getting simply too big to ignore...or so you would think. At latest report, the gaping hole that has...
View Article“Cancer Alley” is on fire — where were the watchmen?
It was a terrible week on Louisiana's "Cancer Alley." This narrow strip of the bayou country between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is home to more chemical plants and refineries than just about any area...
View ArticleThe people of ‘Cancer Alley’ are fighting back
Suddenly, chemical plants in Louisiana were in the news last week. That's understandable -- two explosions on back-to-back days in Geismar and Donaldsonville in the very heart of "Cancer Alley" not...
View ArticleMore much-needed global attention for Bayou Corne
It's funny -- it was just about this time last year that I was writing multiple blog posts about the remarkable situation in Bayou Corne, the little town tucked inside the swamplands 70 miles west of...
View ArticleThe Louisiana sinkhole: It gets even worse
The saga of the Louisiana sinkhole just keeps getting worse and worse. Officials with the company that mined the brine under the town of Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish -- the Texas Brine Co. -- and...
View ArticleA terrible quick fix for the Louisiana sinkhole
Remember the people who brought you the Louisiana sinkhole, the Texas Brine Co? These are the folks whose drilling activities in a salt cavern underneath a small isolated community about 70 miles west...
View ArticleChristmas comes early for La. pollution fighters
A few months ago, I told you about the latest public health crisis in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley" -- the strip of heavily polluting refineries, chemical plants and other industrial facilities that line...
View ArticleHow Louisiana missed a large oil spill
One issue that's come up repeatedly since I launched this website seven years ago has been the multiple failings of Louisiana's state environmental regulators, especially when it comes to reining in...
View Article‘We live in constant fear’: New map shows staggering risks of La.’s ‘Cancer...
There was a time not that long ago — back when Sharon Lavigne was still back in high school in the community of St. James, Louisiana, long before she became a grandmother of 12 — when the people of...
View ArticleHow lax regs, low taxes power Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’
As an environmental lawyer with close ties to Louisiana’s ever-growing community of local activists fighting on the same issues, I’ve been sounding the alarm about the state’s so-called Cancer Alley —...
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